spurned
spurnd
- v reject with contempt
She spurned his advances - s rebuffed (by a lover) without warning
- As the film recounts, when the judges of a Miss Manila contest spurned her in favor of another competitor, the youthful Imelda complained so bitterly to the capital's then mayor .
- Sgolne Royal finally has finally acquiesced to an image she had angrily spurned: the Indulgent Mother of the French Republic.
- Fearful of globalization, tired of paying into a Brussels bureaucracy to which they never really warmed, unsure of the European Union's purpose and extent, voters spurned their .